thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp

v2.1.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 3mo MCP Developer Tools

✓ No known CVEs patched

✓ No known CVEs patched in this version

Affected surfaces

auth

Summary

AI summary

Added API key authentication, OTA package tools, and device creation capabilities.

Full changelog

API key authentication
Tool groups - ability to enable/disable tools by their group to reduce context size for clients with limited capacity (e.g., Claude Desktop, Ollama)
OTA package tools — Create, upload, download, list, delete, and assign OTA packages to devices/profiles (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/22)
Device creation tool — Create ThingsBoard devices directly through MCP (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/9)

Cross-LLM tool descriptions - all descriptions under 1024 char Azure Foundry limit (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/27)
Route console logs to stderr to preserve MCP STDIO transport (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/19)

Fixed NPE when optional telemetry keys are omitted (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/18)
Fixed empty schema for guide tools causing Azure Foundry agent errors (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/27)
Fixed context size overflow in Claude Desktop by enabling tool group filtering (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/pull/29)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-mcp/compare/v2.0.0...v2.1.0

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The ThingsBoard MCP Server provides a natural language interface for LLMs and AI agents to interact with your ThingsBoard IoT platform.